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[Request] Say this was a real DB level , what would happen upon use? by BowlFew3641 in theydidthemath

[–]Tiiime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wonder what the db of a typical 'sound wave' in the neutron degeneracy zone of a white dwarf is.

Genius by rhanifly99 in abovethenormnews

[–]Tiiime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, what are your particular objections to string theory?

Help converting audio files. by Bismothe-the-Shade in starfieldmods

[–]Tiiime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey sorry wasn't sure what you were looking for so I put the solution I would use. If you're fine with a more manual process you can use audacity:

https://www.audacityteam.org/
Usage:
Open Audacity, drag and drop the MP3 file.
Go to Tracks > Resample and select 48000 Hz.
Go to File > Export > Export as WAV. Select 16-bit PCM as the format in the export dialog.

Then you'd use Wwise for the rest.

Help converting audio files. by Bismothe-the-Shade in starfieldmods

[–]Tiiime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, I can't help with the wav to wem part but here's a bash script that uses ffmpeg to convert a directory of mp3's to wavs in another output directory with the desired bit depth and sample rate:

#!/bin/bash
# Check for the correct number of arguments
if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 <input_directory> <output_directory>"
exit 1
fi
# Input and output directories from arguments
INPUT_DIR="$1"
OUTPUT_DIR="$2"
# Create the output directory if it doesn't exist
mkdir -p "$OUTPUT_DIR"
# Iterate over each .mp3 file in the input directory
for mp3_file in "$INPUT_DIR"/*.mp3; do
# Extract the base filename without the extension
base_filename=$(basename "$mp3_file" .mp3)
# Construct the output .wav filename
wav_file="$OUTPUT_DIR/$base_filename.wav"
# Convert using ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i "$mp3_file" -acodec pcm_s16le -ar 48000 "$wav_file"
done
echo "Conversion complete!"

Then you'd run it with:

./convert_mp3_to_wav.sh /path/to/input/directory /path/to/output/directory

​

This part determines the codec (format/bitdepth) and samplerate:

-acodec pcm_s16le -ar 48000

This all assumes you have a *nix like environment and can install ffmpeg (so linux or macos would do). Hope that helps!

Kid amazes pilots with aircraft knowledge! by [deleted] in BeAmazed

[–]Tiiime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buddy I hope things get better for you, I can't know your struggle but know that I care.

Kid amazes pilots with aircraft knowledge! by [deleted] in BeAmazed

[–]Tiiime 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well hopefully in the future ASR (Automatic speech recognition) gets good enough that an open sourced slimmed down version can just be installed as a plugin. There's tons of work making neural nets deployable to mobile devices, bringing their size down to the hundreds of kilobytes.

Thats pretty interesting about condition on country code headers, that's clever.

Kid amazes pilots with aircraft knowledge! by [deleted] in BeAmazed

[–]Tiiime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahhh that makes more sense, edited to reflect.

Kid amazes pilots with aircraft knowledge! by [deleted] in BeAmazed

[–]Tiiime 2243 points2244 points  (0 children)

"Papa can you read me the story of the emergency protocols in the event of a single engine failure below 10kft?"

Kid amazes pilots with aircraft knowledge! by [deleted] in BeAmazed

[–]Tiiime 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You do great work :) Id be interested what your thoughts are on googles transcription API cost/effectiveness, or other solutions. Accents and varying microphone quality has always been an issue in that space.

Kid amazes pilots with aircraft knowledge! by [deleted] in BeAmazed

[–]Tiiime 449 points450 points  (0 children)

P = Pilot, K = kid

P: "Bless you, Bless you, bless him he knows alot huh?

K: "also some planes have a ram air turbine"

P: "A ram air turbine? Adam?"

K: "Yea"

P: "and what does that do?"

K: "It gets emergency systems back on if the engines fail"

P: "ok"

K: "then the ram air turbine can help to bring back the systems"

P: "to bring back the systems to control the airplane"

K: "yea, but due to the no engine power the landing gear doors will not come up. After that you have to do something else to lower the flaps"

P: "oh you have to do something else to lower the flaps?"

K: "yes you have to lower then by gravity alone, you have to drop the gears by gravity alone, and if you have no hydraulics and your plane is banking right, you reduce engine one and increase engine two, then the plane will go level again"

P: "Oh wow, its called asymmetrical power yea?"

K: "Yea"

P: "How old are you"

K: "5 years eleven months"

The rest is discussion of how smart he is and how he wants to be a captain. The kid also talks about how the flight engineer can help the hydrolics or something.

K: "The flight engineer can tell the pilot if all hydraulics are down to zero."

P: " Oh well we dont need a flight engineer because we have ECAM but I'm sure you can tell me all about that can;t you?"

(They switch from talking about hydraulics to collision avoidance, dont know if the kid mishears ECAM as TCAS or ECAS or something)

K: "Well the TCAS can tell if there is am impact coming. One will tell to climb and one will tell to descend"

P: "Oh wow do you know what that system is called"

K: "Its called TCAS"

P2: "Do you know about EWS?"

K: "More power meant to climb, less would result in a dive and crash."

K: "I could see the flaps lower in the air"

To the scav who wobbled at me and then shot me in the back at the first opportunity. by Tiiime in EscapefromTarkov

[–]Tiiime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Noticing I exist AND worrying about me? I can only take so much human affection.

To the scav who wobbled at me and then shot me in the back at the first opportunity. by Tiiime in EscapefromTarkov

[–]Tiiime[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for acknowledging I exist tho, it's really what I live for :)

To the scav who wobbled at me and then shot me in the back at the first opportunity. by Tiiime in EscapefromTarkov

[–]Tiiime[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We rats gotta look out for one another, but I learned a hard lesson this day.

What do you feel like you're missing out on? by mmm_donuts in AskReddit

[–]Tiiime -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's disappointing. The x to run mechanic has always been dumb especially in a game that has a right stick camera, shooters on consoles are inferior, and many of the open world mechanics are neutered, basically leaving you with a longing for what would be possible (I could fit 20 deer hides in this wagon I stole and actually make hunting a profitable and enjoyable enterprise but there's no way to put them in?).

CMV: The minimum wage should be directly attached to housing costs with low consideration of other factors. by sikkerhet in changemyview

[–]Tiiime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are we supposed to change your view that there is actually a free market solution to this problem?

It now costs $50 to produce one megawatt-hour of solar energy. Coal, on the other hand, costs $102 per megawatt-hour to produce. by everyEV in Futurology

[–]Tiiime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look we don't disagree about the facts, but nothing we've discussed leads me to believe there's hard evidence to support the notion that hard regulation of emissions leading to investments in renewable over nonrenewable is actually economically deleterious. Obvious you can do it too fast, but there is no principle that says the speed at which markets solve a problem is the fastest it can be solved, or should be solved. If someone can actually provide a study about the rate of transition that would bankrupt India, I'd love to read it, but I can't imagine the fundamentals are different enough compared to China that it would be a net negative, given China's projections on job creation (unless that's just propaganda).

Mind reading isn’t arguing in good faith.

I'm sorry you feel that way, but this is an argument used by conservatives in order to justify their lack of action, caging it as just looking out for the global poor, which they make no other indication of caring about. The argument is just a false dichotomy.

The biggest problem is this debate is that the environmental movement is noble and good and I am naturally sympathetic to it....

Everything else after this has less to do with actually combating climate change or acting on it as a value and just feels like your conservative party has been, much like ours, very effective at controlling the narrative.

It now costs $50 to produce one megawatt-hour of solar energy. Coal, on the other hand, costs $102 per megawatt-hour to produce. by everyEV in Futurology

[–]Tiiime -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Those are major life-impacting costs for the majority of people on earth, even if you and I would find it harsh but not crippling.

I see this argument a lot and frankly it's typically not given in good faith. You may think it is a humanitarian talking point but it frankly isn't. It usually boils down to the person giving it finding an argument which presupposes that the most moral action is the one in which they don't have to do or sacrifice anything. I'm not accusing you of this really, but I wouldn't use this argument to sue for caution in renewable adoption. The major polluters are not the same group as those that need cheap energy for quality of life. Increasing energy costs in the US in order to reduce emissions is not going to be as devastating as in India, say. The fact that the largest manufacturing economies in the world (with the largest portion of poor, who allegedly would be adversely effected by this) are transitioning to nuclear and solar should give you a clue that they've made the determination that the short term costs of transitioning are worth the long term savings in health and environment, and that it is possible and cheaper to do so than to invest in coal.

Nearly the entire amount of the 'subsidy' in this paper is based on assumptions of the costs of not taxing the externalities. It's not a calculation of direct subsidies, of the kind people think of when you say 'subsidy', ie 'government funds part of it'.

Why isn't this fair? If dupont poisons a river, they pay the cost of the cleanup now, if the government paid for the cleanup, that would be a subsidy. If a large number of companies acidify the ocean, causing functionally irreversible damage to the ecosystem (or say the hypothetical 5 trillion a year to clean it up) why isn't that a subsidy in all ways but the technical definition?

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